![]() ![]() You can see there’s a heavy bunching of tempi too – There’s a lot of breaks around the 114 bpm mark (~16) and there’s a lot around 94 bpm too (~14). ![]() We haven’t hugely contributed to it since then! These are the breaks that spawned most of what other breakbeat orientated genres that came after used. Most of the above breaks are the most used ones in classic jungle (left), rave/oldskool (middle), hip hop and miscellaneous (right) from the late 80s and early 90s. ![]() zip file rather than sampling them themselves, which is, of course, fine, but there’s something quite nice about spotting an isolated portion of drums and sampling them yourselves. Like most people of a certain age, I’ve amassed a tonne of breaks from classic soul, funk, disco, jazz, latin and rock records. Peep WhoSampled’s 20 Most Sampled Breaks of all time for the big hitters). (On a second read through I’ve definitely missed some classics by Funkadelic, Sly and Family… and some others. Hopefully, before any of the trainspotters point out some blatantly famous break I’ve omitted it was either a) intentional as I didn’t need it for this project or b) a genuine accident because I put this list together in a hurry. My error.Īll the usual candidates are here, Worm, Think, Mardi Gras, Amen, Big Beat as well as some slightly lesser known ones. * OOPS! The Funky Drummer is actually at 101 bpm. While I wouldn’t normally bother with this in my own production, for speed and simplicity of categorisation this is far easier. I’ve re-rendered these with their tempo rounded to a whole integer. The process involves selecting certain breaks, importing them to Logic, cropping them to exactly one, two, four or eights bars and detecting the tempo.īelow is the results. I’ve been categorising my breakbeats folder by tempo for an upcoming project (more on this another time). ![]()
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